Set Active Hours to Stop Windows Update Automatic Restarts

Set Active Hours to Stop Windows Update from Automatically Restarting Your PC Most people don’t realize that updates provide another layer of protection to your computer against malware and other types of threats. An up-to-date computer is less vulnerable to malware attacks than an out-of-date one. Let’s take the example …

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Pause/Defer Windows 10 Updates Using Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc)

Pause or Temporarily Stop Receiving Windows Updates Using GPEDIT.MSC Updates are important but sometimes they break things, therefore, it becomes important to defer them, at least for some time. Updates have dependencies; when you update, various software and apps have to be reconfigured, drivers lose their settings, possible compatibility issues, …

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5 Best Free Task Manager Alternatives For Windows

Best Free Task Manager Alternatives for Windows The Windows Task Manager is a process-monitoring program that displays the usage of Hardware resources such as CPU, RAM, HDD, etc. by the installed programs, their processes and services on the system. For a long period of time, the Windows Task Manager was …

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Allow Automatic Updates over Metered Connection in Windows 10

Enable or Disable the Downloading of Automatic Updates over a Metered Connection in Windows Windows 10 has a great networking-related feature called Metered Connection that lets you set a connection as metered. Once you set a connection as metered, Windows will only download small and important updates such as security …

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What is a Cryptoware? The latest type of Computer Malware.

What is a Cryptoware? A Cryptoware, also known as Cryptominer-supported software, is a program that installs either a standalone Cryptominer program without or with user’s approval, or a Cryptominer module as part of the main program. These separate programs or modules included in the main program are not required for …

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